Keywords

Keywords are reserved words that have a specific purpose within the language, and they can’t be used to assignment variable names. Keywords are used to define control structures, such as if, else, for, and while, and others are used for specific purposes, such as def (to define a function) and import (to import modules).

See below the list of Python Keywords

Keywords list
None	except	and	nonlocal
True	pass	is	await
False	finally	as	lambda
import	def	try	assert
from	while	class	del
return	if	not	global
in	elif	with	async
continue	else	or	yield
break	for	raise

Note

• Keywords are case-sensitive and must be written in lowercase, excepting for None, True, False.

• Keywords cannot be used as variable names, function names, or any other identifier in your code.

To obtain the list of keywords:

import keyword
print(keyword.kwlist)

['False', 'None', 'True', 'and', 'as', 'assert', 'async', 'await', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del', 'elif', 'else', 'except', 'finally', 'for', 'from', 'global', 'if', 'import', 'in', 'is', 'lambda', 'nonlocal', 'not', 'or', 'pass', 'raise', 'return', 'try', 'while', 'with', 'yield']